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Meira, Fabio Dias. "Multilingual communication at Albany International." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2014. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/129492.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2014.Made available in DSpace on 2015-02-05T21:09:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 331963.pdf: 12637645 bytes, checksum: 492175c3683f4dc03cbc82f3796ffe63 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014
Línguas estrangeiras e tradução estão presentes em Corporações Multinacionais (MNCs). Este estudo de caso investiga o tratamento dado às línguas e à tradução na subsidiária da Albany International no Brasil. Esta MNC iniciou suas operações em 1895 em Albany, Nova Iorque  EUA para fornecer feltros para máquinas de papel e expandiu-se mundialmente. A primeira parte do estudo visa descobrir como aconteceu/vem acontecendo a expansão global da empresa, datas de acontecimentos relevantes, o quanto ela é multilíngue e multicultural e qual o papel das línguas e da tradução neste processo. Estas questões iniciais levaram a detalhes de como a subsidiária brasileira trata o problema das línguas em seus atuais processos e interações. Foram consideradas as perspectivas e regras da empresa, as percepções dos funcionários, a análise professional das práticas de traduções e línguas, além de fatores históricos e o papel da internet na comunicação multilíngue. A pesquisa utilizou-se de materiais fornecidos pela empresa, entrevistas com líderes de Marketing, Recursos Humanos e Tecnologias da Informação e entrevistas com vinte funcionários (as) envolvidos com a comunicação internacional de todas as áreas funcionais. O estudo revelou uma equipe multilíngue em uma MNC que exige falantes de Inglês (lingua franca) e Espanhol em múltiplas áreas e encontros frequentes. A tradução é necessária com frequência e abrange vários documentos que impactam na qualidade do trabalho. Não há política de línguas documentada, mas há uma série de práticas como aulas de Inglês e tradutor na empresa, além de recursos externos para resolver o problema.
Abstract : Foreign languages and translation are present in Multinational Corporations (MNCs). This case study investigates how languages and translation are handled at Albany International´s subsidiary in Brazil. This MNC started its operations in 1895 in Albany, New York  USA to provide felts for paper machines and expanded globally. The first part of the study was intended to figure out how the company´s global expansion took/has taken place, when relevant events happened, the extent of its multilingual and multicultural status and the role of languages and translation in this process. These initial broad questions were narrowed down to how the Brazilian subsidiary has been dealing with the problem of languages in its contemporary processes and interactions. The latter considered the company´s perspectives and rules, the employees´ perceptions, and the professional analyses of translation and language practices, in addition to historical factors and the role of the internet in the multilingual communication. The research used company-provided materials, interviews with Marketing, Human Resources and Information Technologies leaders and interviews with twenty employees involved in cross-border communication in all functional areas. The study revealed a multilingual staff in a MNC that requires employees to speak English (lingua franca) and Spanish in multiple areas and frequent encounters. Translation is frequently needed and entails a wide range of documents that impacts on work quality. The company does not have a documented language policy, but a set of practices including in-company language classes and translation, in addition to external resources to respond to the problem.
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De, Corte Chantal. "Communication publique et coopération à l'échelle internationale : le projet de communication institutionnelle de développement international Desjardins." Thesis, Université Laval, 2009. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2009/26131/26131.pdf.
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Křetínská, Tereza. "Leadership Communication Role within International Business Organization." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-193179.
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The thesis focuses on the role of leadership communication within a multinational business organization. It aims to confirm the critical importance of communication provided by leaders to their team members. The literature review will focus on the existing communication flows within organizations and the current research results and insights in the field of leadership communication, which is a new, emerging domain of study. Thanks to recent quantitative research (Men, 2014b), it has been already confirmed that leadership communication has a direct effect on employee-organization relationships and overall internal communication. However, qualitative research has been suggested for validation of how the discovered model works in concrete environments (Men, 2014b). Thus, the research section will reveal the findings of in-depth semi-structured interview analysis within a global internal IT services provider which is part of a Group enterprise operating in the logistics industry world-wide. The thesis will culminate in defining logical reasoning for adding communication skills to the company's core competencies for organizational managers and leaders.
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Nilsson, Maria, and Marcus Malveholm. "Communication in International Purchasing : A Study of Communicational Influences On the Purchasing Process." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, School of Health and Society, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-4791.
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In recent years globalization has caused companies to internationalize the purchasing of material, products and services. By establishing supply-chains on foreign markets companies can buy products cheaper, which allows for the sustaining of competitiveness and the cutting of costs. One of the key aspects of purchasing is the interaction between the parties involved, the communication between buyer and supplier.
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how communication between Swedish purchasers and Chinese suppliers affects the outcome of the trade and the buyer-supplier relationship. The research has adopted an inductive approach with some hints of deductive nature.
Problems in the purchasing process were identified by conducting pilot interviews. Based on these problems theories were reviewed and interpreted, followed by the collection of qualitative data through unstructured interviews with six companies in the manufacturing industry. The gathered material is presented in a cross-case analysis, accompanied by a discussion.
The findings indicate that communication between participants involved in the purchasing process affect both the outcome of the trade and the development of buyer-supplier relationships. How and why this affects trade is presented in models and through discussion. Suggestions for future research include a similar research from a HRM perspective.
By combining aspects of interaction and purchasing processes, this study has examined how communication affects purchasing on an international level. By so doing the results of this dissertation may be of interest to companies that purchase internationally or have plans to start doing so.
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Hume, Jessica Mary. "Strategic internal communication in international non-governmental organisations." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24843.
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The role and importance of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) has increased with globalisation and the growth of global institutions. Not only do INGOs play a major role in aid delivery in developing countries, they also serve as the voice of the people in the growing global governance system. Thus they have an increasing impact on the social and economic welfare of people around the world. For this reason, the performance and management of INGOs is vital. However, research on their management is lacking. INGOs possess unique characteristics including complex environments, value-based missions and no financial bottom line. Therefore, management practices, like internal communication, that are generally developed for for-profit organisations need to be evaluated for suitability within the INGO context. Strategic internal communication has been identified as driving organisational performance. Internal communication can be defined as strategic when its purpose is to align internal stakeholders with the organisation’s strategic intent. By facilitating strategic alignment, internal communication can play a critical role in organisational performance. Research on strategic internal communication is limited and virtually non-existent when considered within the INGO context. However, by considering communication management theory, strategic management theory and NGO management theory, it is possible to develop theoretical propositions on the strategic functioning of internal communication in INGOs. In particular, the theory suggests that a postmodern approach to strategic management and strategic internal communication can assist INGOs in addressing many of the challenges they face. This study explores the strategic functioning of internal communication in INGOs through exploratory, qualitative case studies. The evidence shows that internal communication in INGOs does not generally function strategically. However, the function is recognised as having potential to improve the performance of these organisations. In particular, there is support for the suitability of a postmodern approach to strategic internal communication in INGOs.Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Lin, Yi. "Chinese International Students’ Intercultural Communication Competence and Intercultural Communication Apprehension in the USA." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1516.
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This study investigated the intercultural communication competence and intercultural communication apprehension of Chinese international students. Participants in the study consisted of Chinese international students over 18 years old studying at two 4-year public universities in the southeastern United States. The study participants completed 2 online survey questionnaires: the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS), which measured the degree of intercultural communication competence, and the Personal Report of Intercultural Communication Apprehension (PRICA), which measured the degree of intercultural communication apprehension. The findings of the study indicated a significant relationship between Chinese international students' intercultural communication competence and their intercultural apprehension. Findings also noted that gender, age, number of U.S. friends, and level of education were not factors predicting the participants' degree of intercultural communication competence and intercultural communication apprehension. However, frequency of speaking English outside of the classroom was an important factor indicating differences in the degree of the study participants' intercultural communication competence and intercultural communication apprehension. In addition, the study revealed that the length of time in the United States affected participants' intercultural communication competence but not their intercultural communication apprehension.
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Bouras, Khelifa. "The global communication debate." Thesis, University of London, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320265.
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Tapper, Joanna. "The oral academic discourse of international college students." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186056.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the oral participation of freshman International Students (ISs) in college content classes. The research questions were: (i) how much do ISs speak in different academic situations; (ii) what discourse moves do ISs make, especially initiation moves; and (iii) what are the exchange patterns into which IS discourse moves are organized. The naturally occurring discourse of eight freshman undergraduate ISs studying in a variety of fields was tape-recorded in four academic situations (lectures, laboratory sessions, freshman composition classes, and student/teacher writing conferences). Analysis of the transcripts showed that the amount of IS talk varied across the four situations, and among the eight students. The frequency of student moves also varied among the students and across situations, with student questions the most frequent move in lectures, student offer moves in labs, offered responses in composition classes, and nominated responses in conferences. The most frequent exchange patterns in lectures, labs and conferences were 2-part exchanges, but the 3-part exchange was the most frequent in composition classes. Longer exchange patterns also varied across the situations. The findings contribute to studies in SLA, Interlanguage variation, discourse and interaction analysis. There are also implications for the teaching of English for Academic and Specific Purposes.
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O'Neil, Glenn. "Communication evaluation in international organisations : methodology, influence and use." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3253/.
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International organisations (IOs) wield considerable influence in today’s world. Distinguishing them from other actors are the new ideas they produce and communicate that can reframe global debates. However, there is little research about how these organisations evaluate their communication activities. This thesis sets out to fill this gap by providing the first in-depth study of communication evaluation within IOs. The central question of this thesis is to assess the extent to which communication evaluation is possible within IOs with three specific questions: 1) the appropriateness and feasibility of communication evaluation methodology for IOs; 2) the influence of internal and external factors; and 3) the use of communication evaluation findings in IOs. These questions are addressed in three distinct but interlinked empirical studies framed by a conceptual framework. Article 1 provides a 15 year review of communication evaluation within IOs through analysing systematically evaluation reports. Article 2 provides an analysis and reflection on the evaluation by this author of two communication campaigns of IOs. Article 3 provides a comprehensive study on the use of evaluation findings of these two communication campaigns. This thesis found that a process of conceptualisation is needed to match the given communication activities to an appropriate evaluation methodology, implemented with a pragmatic, adaptive and participatory approach rather than imposing a standard set of methods. Evaluation was found only in a minority of IOs and there are challenges in matching evaluation methods to the range and complexity of their communication activities. Internal factors of organisational context and communication goals were found to be important and to equally impede and enable the evaluation process. Improving the efficiency of communication activities was the main use seen of evaluation findings, occurring in unexpected and often opportunistic ways, but nevertheless an indication of a specific contribution of evaluation for communication professionals.
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Liu, Shuo. "Exploring Gender Role Communication in Chinese International Student Couples." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin162645582289654.
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Eytalis, Zachary. "International law and the intentional harmful interference with communication satellites." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114613.
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During the Arab Spring effected governments in the Middle East Northern Africa sought to jam satellite transmissions from news agencies carrying news and information of the uprisings into their respective territories. The news agencies pushed back and in addition jumping satellites and changing signals, some of these agencies reported that such jamming was a violation of international law. As a result of these claims, the first part of this thesis explores the intentional harmful interfere with transnational radio and satellite broadcasting, those States most impacted by jamming, and the legal justifications that a State may assert in order to jam a radio or satellite transmission. The second portion of the thesis is devoted to exploring those areas of international law that support a State sending a satellite transmission to another State without first obtaining the receiving State's consent. This portion of the thesis explores Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, its status as a binding obligation upon all States, and the role it plays in providing legal support for foreign broadcasting conducted by the United States. The final section of this thesis looks at the application of Article 19 to the People's Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Iran in an effort to demonstrate the potential negative impact that economic and political factors may have on its application.Pendant le Printemps Arabe, les gouvernements les plus touchés en Proche Orient et en Afrique du Nord essayaient de bloquer la diffusion satellitaire transmettant les actualités concernant la révolte et le soulèvement sur leurs territoires. Les agences de presse étrangères se sont manifestement déclarées rétives contre ce blocage illégal, considéré comme une violation à la loi internationale et par conséquent, elles se sont acharnées a débloquer cette situation et a tenter de procéder a la transmission satellitaire des informations et de médiatiser ce qui se passaient a l'intérieur de ces pays. En observant cette protestation, cette thèse se propose d'y effectuer une recherche dont la première partie est consacrée à l'enquête sur : une interférence nuisible intentionnelle aux émissions satellitaire et radiophonique; les états étant les plus touchés; et le soutien légal permettant aux états de bloquer la diffusion des émissions. La deuxième partie de cette thèse concerne les lois internationales autorisant un État à émettre une émission par la voie de satellite vers un autre pays sans que la permission de ce dernier soit requise. Cette partie de thèses visera à enquêter sur Article 19 de la Déclaration d'Homme Universel, en tant qu'une loi obligatoire étant compétente de jouer le rôle d'un appui soutenant la diffusion des émissions émises de l'extérieur des États-Unis. En fin la dernière partie se penchera sur l'application de l'Article 19 à la République Populaire de la Chine ainsi qu'à la République Islamique d'Iran afin de démontrer la réalité selon laquelle, d'autres facteurs devraient être pris en considération à savoir économiques et politiques, à l'application de l'Article 19 de la Déclaration d'Homme Universel.
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McCabe, Kathleen (Kathleen Ann). "Information and communication technologies in downtown revitalization : an international survey." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33059.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. 150-157).
The Technology & Downtown Revitalization International Study surveyed downtown management organizations in Canada, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States regarding attitudes, challenges and utilization of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Downtown management organizations (DMOs) believe downtown remains important despite the changing channels of commerce and modes of interaction using ICTs. DMOs overwhelming contend that ICTs are necessary for effective management of downtowns, and are positive about the use of ICTs in downtown. Although they view ICTs as necessary, few DMOs have integrated ICTs into downtown revitalization strategies. A differential exists from perceptions of the value of ICTs and the actual utilization of ICTs in the downtown. Adoption of ICTs with low acquisition costs and low-barriers to operation is more likely. DMOs are more apt to use ICTs related to core organizational activities. Where ICTs are being utilized in downtowns, DMOs often some play a lead role in the introduction and adoption of ICTs. Counter to prevailing perceptions, the indifference of business about the role of technology was identified as a leading challenge to greater use of ICTs downtown. Greater use, acceptance, and regard for ICTs were found in areas where ICTs are perceived to be an important part of the regional economy.
(cont.) Planning practice on the revitalization and management of downtowns, city and town centers, and neighborhood business districts needs to more explicitly address and incorporate information and communication technologies, including knowledge about electronic infrastructure, ICTs (hardware, software, and function), and innovations. This research provides the foundation for future investigations of the effect and impacts of ICTs in downtown revitalization.
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Jansson, K. (Kaisu). "Online recruitment and Millennials:recruitment communication and online assessment." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201701121062.
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Recruitment has shifted from traditional channels and practices to processes taking place online and recruitment research has subsequently started to investigate online recruitment processes. While there have been conflicting perceptions amongst recruitment researchers about whether the organizational or the applicant perspective has been neglected in recruitment research most of the present literature focuses on the first phase of the recruitment process, attracting applicants. This thesis takes the perspective of the applicant, and in this case the Millennial generation, and investigates the later phases of the recruitment process, recruitment communication and online assessment. The aim is to find out what kind of preferences Millennial applicants have towards recruitment communication’s timing, content and media and different online assessment methods such as online tests, digital interviews and gamification.
This thesis is conducted as a qualitative research with a factist perspective. After extensive review of recruitment and Millennial research a theoretical framework is developed. Empirical data is gathered trough semi-structured thematic interviews and analyzed with content analysis. The research findings are then applied to the theoretical framework and the framework is adjusted to depict the preferences of the Millennial applicant towards recruitment communication and online assessment methods.
The research findings suggest the Millennial applicant has several expectations towards both recruitment communication and different online assessment methods. Recruitment communication is expected to happen in a continuous manner to avoid uncertainty and show the hiring organization’s respect and valuation towards the applicant. Recruitment communication should also be efficient and convenient for the applicant, and email is found to be the preferred communication medium. The Millennial applicant also expects feedback on his or her performance as well as reasoning for selection decisions. Concerning different online assessment methods, the Millennial applicant prefers assessment methods that make them feel they have influence over recruitment outcomes. In addition, perceptions of validity and relevance as well as efficiency and convenience affect Millennials’ preferences concerning different online assessment methods.
The research findings have several managerial implications. Designing recruitment processes in which millennial preferences are taken into consideration can produce better applicant experience and have a positive effect on the company image. Although measures have been taken to ensure research reliability, the number of research participants and the same field of study of the research participants limit the generalizability of the research results.
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Mäkinen, A. (Anna). "Development of internal communication policy in growth enterprise." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201809052711.
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Internal communication has an important role in an organization’s every action. It is affecting to the efficiency of processes as well as sense of community among the members of an organization. Even though internal communication as such is relatively much searched topic, developing internal communication and internal communication policy have been disregarded among scientific community.
The objective of this research is to find out how to develop an internal communication policy when there are factors that are strongly affecting to that. The main theory is contingency theory which argues that there is no one universal way to organize an internal communication policy. There are some external and internal factors that affect to organizing such. In this research the growth is an external factor which has affected to the internal factor, the amount of tacit knowledge. The research is made for an IT company Aava Mobile Oy which needs development for three different internal communication channels: intranet, familiarization package and Common Coffee Break. The goal is to find the objectives of development for each channel.
The research is a case study which is using qualitative methods such as semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and observation. The researcher was an active part of the working community which meant the observation was inclusive. The research philosophy is critical realism which means there is an objective reality but the knowledge is socially constructed.
This research found out that growth has many impacts on the development of internal communication policy. The growth makes the organizational structure more complex than it was before which affects the flow of information and the amount of tacit knowledge. Internal communication can be measured in multiple ways, in this research the employee satisfaction was connected with the success of the internal communication policies. Employee satisfaction and the amount of tacit knowledge was also connected, less tacit knowledge within an organization equals more satisfaction among employees.
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Augustesen, Johanna, and Janina Alisa Kappelhoff. "When change and communication collide : The necessity of international communication as a reaction to national change." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-12411.
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Background: In June 2010, Swedish parliament decided that Swedish academia should compete with quality and introduce tuition fees for foreign students. This means that higher education will remain free of charge for citizens of EU/EEA and that third-country students will have to pay a tuition fee for studying in Sweden. Problem discussion: Managing the introduction of tuition fees is a matter of priorities among the various Swedish universities. Depending on the size and budget of the university, the concentration of the change has varied. Linnaeus University is at the moment concentrating on recruiting national students and building their brand within the Swedish boarders, ignoring the consequences that the lack of international students will lead to. We question how the university should be able to maintain an international experience for the student, teachers and researchers unless they choose to invest in international relations and internal marketing to sell their brand. Research question: What could Swedish academia do to communicate their quality of education and their brand on an international market in order to attract international students? Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyze how Linnaeus University, and other institutions in similar situations, can promote their brand on an international market in order to successfully maintain and communicate the core values of their brand. We also wish to inspire similar organizations to be active and work with the situation rather than approaching change with a wait and see strategy. Methodology: We have chosen to make a qualitative research with The Actors perspective. We quickly discovered that this is the ultimate method for us since we are not trying to find any absolute truth, but rather gain knowledge and understanding of how different institutions handle the same situation. To create this understanding, our primary data has been collected through discussions with representatives from various universities and governmental organizations within Sweden. Findings: Our findings are based on several factors in relation to the emerging situation out of the introduction of tuition fees. We identified two major issues regarding inactive leadership and absent decisions. We believe that this is based on the paradigm shift in global Academia, from the classical institution to an organization within a competitive market - with students as their customers. We also found a lack of experience within Swedish Academia when it comes to communication internationally in an effective and efficient manner. Both issues show the urgent necessity for Academia to learn how to communicate their brand internationally in order to successfully attract international students. Keywords: Communication, Change management, Branding, International marketing, Introduction of Tuition Fees, Swedish Academia
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Rajdlová, Lucie. "Marketingová strategie GUARANT International." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-136226.
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GUARANT International is a professional organizer of congress and conference services in the Czech Republic with more than 20 years experience in this field. The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the current marketing strategy of GUARANT International focused on marketing communication. Within that I will evaluate current marketing strategy focused on marketing communication and I will suggest appropriate solution leading to improvement. Another objective of this thesis is to monitor the Czech market in event organizing, to analyse the competitive environment in this field and evaluate the current position of the company at the Czech market. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first two chapters are theoretical; third to fifth chapter is practical part of the thesis.
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Chamsine, Chirine. "Les contraintes culturelles dans la traduction des textes de portée internationale : le cas du droit international humanitaire." Caen, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011CAEN1623.
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Cette étude explore la problématique de la traduction-médiation humanitaire et s'articule autour de deux axes principaux, à savoir l'universalisme humain et les particularismes culturels. Face à l'universalité du message humanitaire, qui est basée sur l'unité de la nature humaine, surgissent les divergences culturelles qui conditionnent la compréhension et la réception de la traduction. Car, c'est précisément en fonction des caractéristiques identitaires et culturelles que l'homme donne sens au monde qu'il perçoit et avec lequel il interagit. En se plaçant dans le paradigme d’une théorie interprétative culturelle du texte, ce travail étudie les rapports entre langages, langues, représentations, émotions et cultures. A partir d'un corpus réunissant des textes spécialisés et généraux dans le domaine de l'humanitaire, une analyse terminologique et traductologique souligne les interférences entre le politique, le religieux, le juridique, le social et l'humanitaire. En suivant l'évolution sémantique et conceptuelle de termes et expressions au sein de leur propre culture et leur passage dans la culture d'accueil, l'analyse révèle le rapport entre le sens et l'ancrage local qui s'exprime dans la langue et la culture de chacun. L'objet de la recherche est de dégager des approches permettant de penser l'universalité des droits humains dans la diversité et la pluralité des logiques à travers le dialogue des cultures dans lequel la traduction sert à établir une communication interculturelle entre deux visions du mondeThis study explores the problem of humanitarian translation-mediation and is centered around two main axes, namely the human universalism and cultural particularism. The humanitarian message universality, which is based on the unity of the human nature, faces cultural differences which affect the translation understanding and reception. And it is precisely according to identity and cultural characteristics that people give sense to the world they perceive and with which they interact. Based on the paradigm of a text cultural interpretative theory, this work examines the correlation between languages, representations, emotions and cultures. From a corpus combining specialized and general texts in the humanitarian field, a terminological and traductological analysis highlights the interferences between the political, religious, legal, social and humanitarian domains. By following the semantic and conceptual evolution of terms and expressions within their own culture and their passage in the target culture, the analysis reveals the correlation between meaning and local anchors expressed in the language and culture of each. The object of the research is to identify approaches to conceive the universality of human rights in the diversity and plurality of logics through the dialogue of cultures in which translation serves to establish an intercultural communication between two visions of the world
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Bergström, Niklas. "Towards an integrated theory of communication in international relations : UNICEF and the need of a communication strategy /." Genève : l'auteur, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb349457353.
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McKee, Erin Leigh. "Conflict-Conditioned Communication: A Case Study of Communicative Relations between the United States and Iran from 2005-2008." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/264.
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In protracted international conflicts, truth is often sacrificed in the name of victory. Political realists see international politics as a competition to win power, retain power, and demonstrate power; misleading the enemy in the name of strategy and misleading the public in the name of security are necessary elements of the game. A less obvious condition is that those caught in the cycle of intergroup conflict also withhold truths from themselves. This denial of truth and reality--to the Other, to the public, and to the self--is especially prevalent in the communicative relationship between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. This study explores the communicative relationship between the United States and Iran via mass media with a particular focus on propaganda as "natural." The literature review explains how conflict-conditioned communication grows and operates within the context of intergroup conflict, including the significance of globalization and information technology. The communicative relationship between the United States and Iran is used as a case study to explore conflict-conditioned communication. A snapshot of the U.S.-Iran communicative relationship was taken from May 1, 2005 - May 1, 2008. Articles from three print and online media sources were combed and analyzed for examples and patterns of conflict-conditioned communication. The method is based on an approach to understanding conflict-conditioned communication that was developed by Dr. Harry Anastasiou, a conflict resolution professional and educator. The method additionally utilizes the work of Dr. William O. Beeman, an expert on misperceptions between the United States and Iran. The conflict-conditioned communicative relationship between the United States and Iran shows how legitimate concerns and human needs are filtered through collective psychology, history, and national identity and absorbed into misperceptions. These misperceptions are perpetuated through propaganda and lead to unyielding political positions. The dual phenomena of globalization and advanced information technology amplify these unyielding political positions by spreading propagandized misperceptions faster and farther than ever before. As the United States and Iran become more entrenched in unyielding political positions, communication reduces to competing systems of propaganda, thus making peaceful conflict resolution less likely.
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Levitt, Jonathan. "An international multidisciplinary analysis of scholarly communication through investigating citation levels." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/41778.
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This thesis seeks to demonstrate that the new facilities of Web of Science (WoS) online can be used in new ways to enhance understanding of scholarly communication. It investigates four aspects of scholarly communication: characteristics of highly cited articles, citation levels of collaborative articles, citation levels of multi-disciplinary articles, and patterns of annual citation of highly cited articles. For the first two topics it investigates the WoS category of ‘Information Science & Library Science’ (IS&LS), whereas for the other topics it compares diverse WoS categories in science and social science. Although its main data source is WoS, its investigation of disciplinarity also uses Scopus. The thesis finds: (a) Highly cited IS&LS articles tend to be multidisciplinary and cited late, but are not necessarily first-authored by influential IS&LS researchers, (b) Amongst un-cite IS&LS articles the proportion of collaborative articles has remained almost constant over the past three decades whereas for higher cited articles it has grown steadily with time, (C) In social science subjects the level of citation of multi-disciplinary research are generally similar to that of mono-disciplinary research, whereas in science the citations levels for multi-disciplinary research are substantially lower than that of mono-disciplinary research, and (d) In both science and social science many very highly cited articles continue to be heavily cited more than twenty years after publication. This thesis also introduces and uses an indicator for measuring the extent of collaboration called ‘average partner scores’ and indicates a way in which the subject categories of WoS can be investigated without requiring a licence for the WoS database. Finally, it identifies and addresses some of the technical problems of using WoS online to investigate scholarly communication.
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Tolerton, Mason John. "‘Working the Border’ Risk and Interagency Communication At an International Airport." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Social and Political Sciences, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4440.
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This thesis seeks to answer the ‘key question’: ‘how is the border worked at an international airport?’ To answer this key question the author, who is employed as a Customs officer, uses participant observation to provide material for an anthropological analysis of this question. The primary anthropological focus that will permeate throughout this thesis is interconnectedness of human and non human actors.
This focus on interconnectedness will be linked to the ability of the workers of the border to communicate about risk to one another. Risk at the border is highly political following the terrorist attacks of September 11 (9/11). The attacks are not a focus of this thesis but a study of the border network will shed some light on how the workers of the border make sense of external factors such as these attacks (9/11) in their work world.
The thesis accounts for links between the border workers of different government agencies and uses the idea of an occupational community to do so. The thesis will attempt to account for technologies within the border network. The account of technologies will demonstrate through an actor network approach their hybrid nature, and their ability to negotiate and renegotiate the border network. Power is analysed at the border through the ideas of Foucault. Though the idea of occupational community, actor network theory and the ideas of Foucault on power are not linked outside of this thesis in any way, they provide an honest account of the border network as expressed through the case study of risk and interagency communication at an international airport.
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Brinn, Michelle. "Exploring intercultural understanding through home-school communication in an international school." Thesis, University of Bath, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665419.
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This inquiry was prompted by a desire to understand ‘partnership working’ (DfE, 2012, p.3) with the diverse parental body of a British International School Pre-Nursery based in Bangkok. It was hypothesised that this necessitated the co-construction of a shared understanding between home and school about a child’s learning. Nonetheless, the manner in which this could be achieved was unclear. Consequently, an explorative case study was instigated to gain a greater understanding of home-school interactions within this context. Influenced by Early Years policy and literature, as well as concepts of dialogue and interculturalism, it was hypothesised that involving parents within the redevelopment of a reporting and assessment tool may support the co-construction of a shared understanding about the child as a learner. Accordingly, a series of parental meetings were organised to elicit parental views. The parental meetings were illuminating and prompted the adaptation of a range of tools and artefacts to scaffold parents into a greater understanding of Pre-Nursery pedagogy and to engage them in a learning dialogue with school. At the completion of the study, evidence indicated that the development of a shared understanding between home and school had been achieved. This suggested that integrating conceptions of scaffolding and co-construction within home-school communication enhanced the potential for partnership working. Nonetheless, the complexities of engaging with the diverse parental body found within international education were also highlighted. In addition, the inquiry highlighted the difficulties of sustaining and extending practice innovations. It was concluded that further research may be necessary to fully understand partnership working within this context and to develop the consistent whole school approach deemed necessary to support its implementation.
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Slade, Steven. "Selling Child Sponsorship: The Communication and Representation Practices of Plan International." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22256.
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Child sponsorship has long been a contentious topic since its inception and subsequent mainstay as one of the key models in development for acquiring funds. As a tool for non-governmental organisations (NGOs), it is a popular and therefore competitive practice that requires able communications that simultaneously can promote sponsorship and maintain the ethical ideals of the organisation. The aim of this paper is to develop further understanding and increased knowledge of how Plan International, a prominent NGO and a proponent of the practice, present and communicate child sponsorship. Within the confines of a case study, the paper sets out to establish the methods, purposes and considerations that Plan International have when they communicate and market child sponsorship, one of their primary ways of accruing funds and thus mobilising action. Drawing on a triangulation of collected empirical data, and under a defined theoretical framework that advocates a post-humanitarianism approach, this thesis makes tentative conclusions that whilst Plan International are making strides to modernise their child sponsorship approach they are at the same time encountering continued challenges of representation, framing and strategizing their message.
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Alder, Simone. "CoMIC : an exploration into computer-mediated intercultural communication." Scholarly Commons, 2007. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/682.
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This thesis explores how cultural differences manifest themselves in computermediated intercultural communication (CoMIC). This study particularly looks at the role and use of digital nonverbals (DNVs) and their regulatory functions. The data analyzed is from a global virtual team working together for a period of three months. The grounded theory method has been employed to code the electronic transcript of the team's communication. Furthermore, the participants were surveyed regarding their personal backgrounds, their work, and their perception of the communication processes that took place. The study shows that in an intercultural communication process DNVs are used to avoid intercultural misunderstandings and to underline the various communication styles. The different styles, hand in hand with the DNVs used, vary depending on the team's overall situation. However, the absence of DNVs can be an indicator for a state of crisis.
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Harrafa, Hassan. "Globalisation and alternatives an interdisciplinary reading into the discourse of NGOs /." Master's thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/82441.
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"April 2002"Thesis (MA (Hons))--Macquarie University, Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Centre for International Communication, 2003.
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Introduction -- Historiography of NGOs -- Historiography of globalisation -- World social forum, the who is who in the anti-globalisation/deglobalisation movement and alternatives -- Critical discourse analysis, discourse historical method and study's methodology -- Data analysis, findings and impact of NGOs' discourse on global civil society and TNCs -- Summary of findings, limitations and avenues for future research.
Non-Government-Organisations (NGOs) have been in the forefront of the struggle against the alleged negative impact of globalisation on developing countries and disenfranchised communities around the world. But despite the fact that NGOs and other grassroot movements are becoming increasingly strident, the discourse of this sector of civil society has not been subjected to any substantial and concerted academic study, particularly in the field of international communication. -- The present study aims at partially filling this gap by 1) reviewing the current general state of NGOs, 2) surveying the latest debates relative to the outreach of globalisation and 3) examining the alternatives being proposed. While drawing mainly on a select sample of NGOs and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) press communiques, the core focus of this study is to deconstruct the NGOs' discourse with a view to gauging its linguistic and hermeneutical underpinnings and situating its relevance within the ongoing debate on globalisation and alternatives. -- This study also aims to examine the discourse of NGOs in the context of a multidiscourse environment relative to the present state of global community development in general and civil society and disenfranchised communities in developing countries in particular as part of the praxis of mainstreaming alternative views and discourses. -- For this, an interdisciplinary methodology of text analysis, juxtaposition and interpretation, based largely on the matrix outlined in Wodak's (Matouschek, Wodak & Januschek, 1996, p. 60), Historical Discourse Method (HDM), Van Dijk's (1998) Media Discourse Approach and Fairclough's (1995, 2001) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used throughout this study. -- And in order to gauge the impact of NGOs' discourse on global civil society, sample articles are examined to decode the perspectives of pro-globalisation media vis-a-vis NGOs' discourse within the parameters of TNCs/Civil Society/NGOs relationships, international political economy and NGOs' taxonomy within International Regimes.
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Bülow, Anne Marie. "E-Mail in International Negotiation." Department für Fremdsprachliche Wirtschaftskommunikation, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2009. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1136/1/document.pdf.
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This paper investigates the advantages and disadvantages of the use of e-mail to obtain agreement between two parties with overlapping but also conflicting interests. The literature on Media Richness suggests that e-mail is too lean to facilitate agreement; but all supporting evidence stems from homogenous populations. This paper, however, starts from the hypothesis that in connection with lingua franca interaction, the text format provides advantages for parties that need to think how to phrase an argument. However, the evidence provided from a negotiation task performed by international business students indicates that, while there is a distinct advantage in the feature of reviewability, the text format itself also poses a problem because it allows selective attention.Series: WU Online Papers in International Business Communication / Series One: Intercultural Communication and Language Learning
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Uwayigira, Vedaste. "Assessment of Communication and Information flow between Trondheim Municipality and international employees." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-13121.
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This study is an examination of communication channels that are most relevant and appropriate for communication and information flow between Trondheim Municipality as a local authority and international employees who benefit the municipal services as part of its residents. The study seeks to assess the effectiveness of the existing communication channels and suggest possible ways of improving the communication and information flow between the source and the recipient. The theoretical framework applies two bodies of theories in social science, predominantly emphasizing on globalization and communication theories. These two theories are chosen to illustrate the way in which Trondheim Municipality seeks to provide a reliable means of communication to integrate the foreign employees who stay and work in the community; therefore, the two theories would form the basis of the study. The study was carried out in Trondheim, Mid-Norway. The eight respondents were selected from five organisations/ companies located in Trondheim which are NTNU, Statoil, SINTEF, ACUSTO and ATMEL Norway. The respondents were professionals from the scientific disciplines of engineering, geology, hydrology, researcher, and geophysicist. They were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. Thus, the current study examines the communication channels which are used by Trondheim Municipality that include internet, electronic mail, face-to-face communication, telephone, postal mails, brochures and booklets. The findings of the study indicated that most of information needed by the respondents was obtained from the internet. Subsequently, in order to improve communication between Trondheim Municipality and international employees, it was suggested that, the information regarding municipal services should be publicized at the strategic contact points such as police and tax office. The study concludes that generally the communication and information flow between Trondheim Municipality and international employees can be better enhanced using various modern information and communication technologies such as internet and conveyed through major world languages at various points of entry and contact offices providing the essential services that cater for an international workforce at the onset of their arrival in the area.
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Stalder, Pia. "Pratiques de communication des acteurs professionnels lors de réunions en contexte international." Bern : [s.n.], 2008. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.
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Swartz, Brecken Chinn. "Strategies in international broadcasting a grounded analysis of communication values across cultures /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3747.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: Communication. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Coleman, Anita Sundaram, and Bracke Paul. "DLIST: Building An International Scholarly Communication Consortium for Library and Information Science." Information and Library Network Centre, An IUC of University Grants Commission, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105826.
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DLIST is the Digital Library of Information Science and Technology, a repository of electronic resources in the domains of Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT). Initial collection development scope is in Information Literacy and Informetrics. Academics, researchers, and practitioners create a wealth of content that includes published papers, instructional materials, tutorials for software and databases, bibliographies, pathfinders, bibliometric datasets, dissertations and reports. DLIST aims to capture this wealth of information in a library that is openly available for re-use and global dissemination. Open deposit processes where authors retain copyright and facilities for full-text storage in a variety of formats are used.
A demonstration of DLIST along with the steps to register, deposit, and use materials is a part of the oral presentation at CALIBER 2003, Ahmedabad, India. UK and US experiences in building institutional repositories and strategies for international consortia building for resource sharing using DLIST are also outlined.
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Head, Naomi Claire. "Conflict and communication : critical theory, international relations and the intervention in Kosovo." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/238/.
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This thesis examines contemporary developments in critical theory and good international citizenship in order to develop a normative framework for the evaluation of humanitarian intervention. Situated at the interface of critical theory and practice in international relations, the thesis investigates the concepts of legitimacy, normativity and evaluative standards, and explores problems surrounding their practical application in relation to NATO's intervention in Kosovo in 1999. The research builds on recent developments in discourse ethics to formulate, ground, test and evaluate a critical theoretical framework. This framework is presented as a series of `communicative imperatives' which might inform initiatives in conflict resolution. The `communicative imperatives' are derived from an analysis of contemporary debates around Habermasian discourse ethics and good international citizenship. The research thus explores several existing applications of Habermasian discourse ethics in international relations, notably Linklater's, and examines recurrent concerns relating to the relationship between the universal and the particular in normative international theory. The argument draws upon Benhabib's procedural emphasis, Shapcott's move towards Gadamerian hermeneutics and feminist critiques of discourse ethics in order to formulate a conception of dialogue that gives critical purchase on contemporary practices of exclusion and coercion; practices that all too often remain unproblematised. What emerges is a clearer understanding of the need for communicative fairness in processes of conflict resolution - rather than a substantive standard of right - and an appraisal of how such a procedural evaluation can be justified and applied. This, then, is a theoretical analysis of the potential and limitations of an evaluative framework which prioritises `good communication' in the practices of international deliberations. It seeks to test the communicative imperatives in the particularity of the deliberations surrounding the intervention in Kosovo. Consequently, it draws conclusions about communicative practice during the conflict and the implications of a communicative model both for international relations and what it means to be a good international citizen.
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Bennett, Diana. "Effects of electronic communication on culture shock of spouses of international students." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2002. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2438.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2002.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 135 p. : ill. (some col.). Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-123).
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Amon, Faith Sophie. "Organizational change communication, identity, image, and culture the case of care international /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004702.
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Gunn-Graffy, Colin. "When in Rome, Beijing or Brussels: Cultural Considerations of International Business Communication." Thesis, Boston College, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/565.
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Thesis advisor: Donald FishmanThis thesis examines the role of culture in international business communication through case studies of several multinational corporations. The first case looks at Coca-Cola's product recall crisis in Belgium in 1999, which exhibited an uncharacteristic deviation from the company's well-known brand marketing brilliance. The second case deals with problems that Disney encountered as it tried to establish its first theme park in Europe in the 1990s and found itself facing a culture as proud and protective as Disney itself. At the heart of these cases were outdated international strategies and an attitude of arrogance that assumed that an American business approach could easily be transferred to a different country and culture. The thesis concludes with an analysis of Google as a case study for the future followed by suggestions for successful international strategies and final thoughts on globalization's effect on culture and corporations
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2007
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Communication
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Bitar, Wafa. "Technologies de l'information et de la communication et développement international, l'approche des organisations internationales: Une étude du cas égyptien." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26585.
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Ma thèse porte sur l'approche des institutions de développement international en ce qui a trait à la fracture numérique entre pays industrialisés et pays en voie de développement (PVD). Les propositions du Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement, du G8 et de l'Agence canadienne pour le développement international sont examinés et mis en perspectives à partir de l'exemple de l'Égypte. Mon hypothèse est que la définition des besoins des PVD non seulement leur échappe au profit des organisations internationales mais encore que celle-ci correspond aux besoins des pays développés. Contraints dans une logique qui ne leur convient pas, les PVD utilisent toute une série de manoeuvres dilatoires qui leur permettent d'obtenir les fonds internationaux et de conserver leur équilibre politique. Les gagnants sont les groupes privilégiés des PVD et les aventuriers capitalistes du nord. Les résultats sont pauvres en matière de développement.
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Višňovská, Lenka. "Komunikačná stratégia spoločnosti Guarant International spol. s r.o." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-16461.
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The thesis deals with the marketing communication of the selected company. The theoretical part follows the theoretical perspective on marketing communication and particularly marketing of services. The third chapter analyzes a specific company, its activity and market position. The fourth chapter is devoted to communication strategy and communication tools of the company. The last chapter evaluates the tools and gives suggestions to improve communication.
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Ojanperä, O. (Olga). "Effects of using English in business communication in Japanese-based multinational corporations." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2014. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201402131106.
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Japanese companies are internationalising and becoming increasingly involved in global business. It has become more and more common in Japan to use English, the global language of business. Recently, English has been introduced as the official language of a few Japanese corporations and discussions are going on in many other companies. English is not used for international operations solely but it is required in almost all functions.
English has an undeniable role as the lingua franca of global business. Using English is no more a choice but inevitable for companies trying to compete in international markets. Yet, the effects of English in business communication have not been studied much until recent years.
The aim of this research is to examine the effects of using English in Japanese-based multinational corporations. Using qualitative research method, the empirical part of the study is comprised of a two-step research including three interviews and a questionnaire. Participants were selected from four Japanese-based multinational corporations.
Three main topics are discussed in the study. Firstly, the role of language skills in cross-cultural business communication is analysed. Secondly, the effects of using English in Japanese companies are studied on two levels including individual and company levels. On individual level, it is discussed how using English affects job performance, and how English language skills affect career development in Japanese corporations. On company level, it is examined how the corporate strategy can support effective use of English in Japanese companies.
There were two main findings in this study. Firstly, English language skills can contribute to better job performance and promotion in Japanese-based multinational corporations. Employees with English language skills seem to have better chances for promotion and overseas assignments, and have wider career choices. On the other hand, using English can make communication slow, cause misunderstanding, create frustration and create barriers for employees with poor language skills. Secondly, it was found out that the company strategy has an essential role in supporting effective business communication in English. Not only can the company choose the right language policy, but it can enhance effective use of English, by creating an encouraging atmosphere and offering its employees opportunities to use and practise English language skills.
In summary, by presenting a qualitative study of Japanese-based multinational corporations, this research aims at contributing to better understanding of effective business communication. The role of language cannot be left aside, since effective cross-cultural business communication can define Japanese companies’ success in today’s multicultural business world.
This study was conducted in Tohoku University research programme during academic year 2012–2013, in Sendai, Japan.
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Van, Zyl Jeanri-Tine. "The Bretton Woods School of Development communication as an 'agent' of modernisation in Sub-Saharan Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11602.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-81).A literature study invetigating the role of communication within the Bretton Woods School of Development Communication as an agent to achieve social and economical change in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study presents social and economic change as intended outcomes of modernisation as supported by this school of thought. It grapples with Western modernisation discourse that was advanced by Bretton Woods institutions as well as the instruments of communication (media) applied to achieve the intended developmental outcomes. It suggests that the presumed lack of modernisation in Sub-Saharan Africa is based on subjective development criteria and the applicability of ineffective communication and governance methods that failed to consider the region's cultural and socio-economic diversity. In a postmodern world, the study suggests that there should be a gradual move away from the Bretton Woods School of Development Communication-thought and that the focus should rather be to enable the region to establish communication, development and governance models that are African in character.
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Leong, Rosa. "A study of research trends in international public relations." Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2120010.
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Templeton, Travis H. "The Impact of Emergent Information and Communication Technology on Peacebuilding." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10282455.
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Information and communication technology (ICT) facilitates both the perpetuation of conflict and the coherence of peacebuilding efforts. ICT enhances the reach of belligerents motivated to promote conflict. ICT also accelerates the diffusion of narratives about the history, groups and motivations within conflict. These narratives promote rapid self-selection into identity groups within or on the periphery of a conflict, and reinforce motivations to continue or increase one’s commitment to conflict. ICT also allows peacebuilders to coordinate, cooperate and assess their impact on a faster, more comprehensive and more accurate basis. Tools that promote situational awareness of peacebuilding efforts can enable peacebuilders to achieve efficiency and impact through specialization. ICT that facilitates awareness of shared problems and opportunities for collaboration can prompt cooperation among both international and local peacebuilders. ICT further enhances the scope, accuracy and speed of peacebuilding monitoring and evaluation efforts. Conflict and peacebuilding are activities defined by the motivations of groups. ICT does not change these motivations, but it affords their operationalization. The peacebuilding community must adapt to the challenges and opportunities posed by the introduction of tools which allow ideas to rapidly inspire larger groups to act and be accountable for activities in peace and violence.
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West, Chasah E. "Organizational-Public Relations| A Cultural Measure of International Publics." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1594479.
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This thesis aims to measure the dimensions that comprise a relationship between an organization and its public (Organization-Public Relationship) across cultures in order to ascertain which of the dimensions are valued most in those various cultures. Through a historical look at public relations literature, the relatively new theory of Organization-Public Relations is traced, explained, and then applied. O-PR dimensions considered for study are trust, control mutuality, relationship commitment, relationship satisfaction, and face and favor. The study undertaken will be exploratory in nature; the survey will be distributed to international college students currently attending American universities, 18-25 and analyzed using one-way ANOVA to provide a comparison. While many culture-specific models of public relations exist, this study does not attempt to build a new model, but to measure cultures across an existing one. The expected outcomes will provide insight into building and measuring effective cross-cultural, and multi-cultural public relations campaigns, as well as allow for a further validation and understanding of international application of the Organization-Public Relationship Assessment (OPRA): a cross-cultural, multiple-item scale for measuring organization?public relationships developed by Huang (2001). Data will also be collected, analyzed, and compared on perception of likelihood of relationship dimensions affecting word-of-mouth advertising from students
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Chantaraks, Nilobol. "Student Perception of Nonverbal Behaviors of International TAs." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500476/.
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Six hundred sixty-six students were queried at the University of North Texas. The appropriate use of nonverbal behaviors of international and U.S. American TAs was surveyed. An eleven item questionnaire (Teacher Nonverbal Measure) was utilized. These questions were tested by an ANOVA. Data indicated that international TAs are less likely to use appropriate nonverbal behaviors than U.S. American TAs. Thus, it is possible to assume that international TAs are more likely to be perceived as using inappropriate nonverbal behaviors than U.S. American TAs. Also, communication competence was investigated. The Communication Skill Rating Scale was utilized and tested by ANOVA. Results indicate that international TAs are viewed as significantly less competent than U.S. American TAs.
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Williams, L. E. "International marketing relationships : an alternative view." Lincoln University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/2093.
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This study began with the observation that international marketing research (IMR) lacked a human face. A literature search confirmed this view. The review was thus widened to include international marketing (IM) studies of culture, cognition, and communication, since they were thought to underpin all human interactions. This step, it was believed, would help clarify marketing scholars' understanding of these encounters. Analysis established that not only were there few studies in these areas, but they also focused on dyads, prediction, and control. To establish how this research had evolved in this way and how it could best be extended, an exploration of how knowledge is created followed. This culminated in my understanding that the culture in mainstream marketing circles was responsible for the lack of development of IM relationship research. A decision was therefore made to study this area from an alternative perspective to the positivist approach typically adopted. An interpretive study of small business in a developing country and their overseas buyer was undertaken to that end. In total, more than eleven months fieldwork was conducted in Indonesia. The resulting interpretation was compared to the existing IM relationship research. The literature was then again extended to examine non-marketing studies that may help explain field findings that could not be explained by existing IMR. It was suggested that IM scholars needed to question whether the values and assumptions underlying their research, are appropriate in a global context.
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Al, musaiteer Suliman Saleh. "The Saudi students' experience in intercultural communication." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1439568586.
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Berryman, Laurel R. "Communicating with the World: History of Rhetorical Responses to International Crisis and the 2007 U.S. National Strategy for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/72.
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Following the events of September 11, 2001, we have seen a revival in American public diplomacy. I argue the U.S. continues to rely on similar rhetorical responses to crisis that are an essential part of American public diplomacy interconnected through history, from the birth of our country to the recent 2007 U.S. National Strategy for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication. Tracing this recurring rhetorical process from our founding to the Carter Administration illustrates our reliance on similar rhetoric despite changing contexts. I use Burke’s concept of identification and the interrelated use of ethos and enemy construction to demonstrate the rhetorical parallels between the Carter Administration’s 1979 Communication Plan with Muslim countries and the 2007 NSPDSC. This analysis not only contributes to the gap in public diplomacy research but provides insight into American public diplomacy since 9/11.
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Sternkopf, Sylva-Michele. "Language and Business - International Communication Strategies in Saxon Small and Medium-Sized Companies." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2004. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200401056.
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Study of international communication strategies in small and medium-sized companies; focus on foreign language strategies; quantitative empirical analysis of the following areas: global marketing, international trade fairs, press and media relations, foreign language training, internet presentation and sales material; qualitative linguistic analysis of English-language brochures published by SMEs, identification of areas of improvement, discussion of the services of a communications consultant with the objective of coordinating foreign language communication tasks in SMEsUntersuchung internationaler Kommunikationsstrategien in mittelständischen Unternehmen; Schwerpunkt: (fremd)sprachliche Umsetzung; quantitative empirische Analyse folgender Bereiche: globales Marketing,internationale Messen, Pressearbeit, fremdsprachliche Weiterbildung, Internetpräsentation, Werbematerialien und Broschüren; qualitative sprachwissenschaftliche Analyse von englischsprachigen Broschüren mittelständischer Unternehmen; Aufdeckung von Schwachstellen und Handlungsbedarf, Diskussion der Dienstleistungen eines Communications Consultants (Sprachenberaters) zur Koordination fremdsprachlicher kommunikativer Aufgaben in Unternehmen
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Rönkkö, Katja. "Engaging Hundreds of Millions, Engaging WWFers : The Internal Communication within an International NGO." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-91054.
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The significance of local and international non-governmental organizations in society has beenincreasing quite rapidly. Nevertheless, the research concerning international NGOs internalactivities has not evolved in phase with the growing roles of NGOs’. The internal communicationand organizational culture have significant role on how NGOs works externally. The aim of thisstudy is to gain knowledge on WWF’s (World Wide Fund for Nature) internal communication andorganizational culture. This is achieved by researching the communicational processes aroundWWF’s global “Engaging hundreds of millions” -objective and reflecting the findings on theapproaches and theories among organizational culture and sensemaking. WWF is one of the world’slargest environmental international NGO with over 5,000 employees worldwide. The study bases onthe experiences of WWF’s managing communicators, and it reveals that a majority of them feel thatthe internal communication in the Network does not work as effectively as they hope. According tothe results, many people feel that the internal communication and participation to differentprocesses is unsatisfactory mainly because clear practices and opportunities to participate arelacking. However, the study also reveals that there is a substantial enthusiasm and will to improvethe practices together within the WWF Network.
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Wunsch, Jennifer. "Computer mediated communication and international development, an institutional analysis of world bank initiatives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ30878.pdf.
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Hwang, Kumju. "The sociological implications and communication problems of international collaboration in science and technology." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404583.
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Müller, Joachim W. "International collaboration in advanced technology : the case of the European communication satellite programme." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9b633345-23dd-483c-9623-5ed5e6c16321.
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Governments have funded the development and production of advanced technology in order to establish supply security and/or to achieve economic growth. The policy of government funding includes three alternatives: the two basic options of maintaining a national project or participating in international collaboration involving a number of sovereign states, and the third option of doing both in parallel. The study examines international collaboration in such a way as to assist in the selection of the appropriate policy option. Particular attention is paid to the perspective of small and large, advanced and less advanced European countries. The research problem is addressed by focusing exclusively on those results which distinguish international collaboration from a national project, summarised under the concepts of collaborative sharing and collaborative efficiency. The former identifies the sharing of funding and technology not to be found in a national project. The latter identifies the difference in efficiency between international collaboration and a national project. Efficiency, indicated by cost, quality and time, is examined under the headings of policy-making, executive management, industrial rationalisation and production volume. Furthermore, collaborative sharing and efficiency are examined in the context of parallel national projects. This focus on the differences between the policy options provides the basis for selecting the appropriate one. Previous studies fail to give convincing answers to the research problem: they concentrate on collaborative efficiency while neglecting collaborative sharing, and they disagree over whether international collaboration or a national project is more efficient. This study attempts to overcome these shortcomings by examining a major case study of international collaboration, namely the European Communication Satellite Programme. The following conclusions are established. To achieve supply security, the collaborative option is considered appropriate for the large, advanced European country, and the parallel option for the large, less advanced countries. To achieve economic growth, the national option is appropriate for the advanced European countries. The smaller, less advanced countries are seen to play only a limited role in government funding of advanced technology.